Are the CIA and the FBI bosses falling on
their swords to protect our unelected President?

The
international press has already labeled George W. Bush a simpleton and---despite
a stern Bushie demand for patriotism that even made CBS's respected anchor
man, Dan Rather, admit he shrank from asking tough questions---other American
journalists have begun to use other synonyms for simpleton. [See Molly Ivans?
BUT HE's OUR WACKO.]

Now
comes news of specific tipoffs to our costly intelligence agencies that should
have warned the brave leader of our country exactly what Osama bin Laden's
maniacs had in mind. But the bosses at the FBI and the CIA have quickly stepped
up to the plate to deny that George W. Bush's ears were ever sullied with such
inside dirt.

"It
was all our fault," the FBI and the CIA tell us.

Everyone
in Washington knows that everyone in Washington is full of shit. And so
Washington is asking:

'the way I see it," comments one
D.C. insider, "if there is any kind of evidence that is made public (no matter
how small) that Bush had prior knowledge of the attacks and that thousands may
perish, our country would face the biggest political scandal in its small
history. This would dwarf both the Watergate and the Lewinski affair. Lets face
it, people would be horrified. And Bush would not only lose his presidency, but
he might even face criminal charges. I have a feeling we have an open can of
worms here."

Well,
everyone knows that secrets are the tools of tyranny and we begin to wonder if
this war on terror was staged just so we could be tyrannized. Or should we
shrink from asking tough question as Dan Rather did so as not to be

Is
it unpatriotic
of me to ask
these questions?

accused
of being unpatriotic? For example, I know an air force vet who can't
understand why fighter jets weren't scrambled to head off the hijacked
airliners long before they hit the World Trade Center or the Pentaqon. He
insists there was sufficient time and advance radar warning.

And why do the Bushies continue
to resist demands for the establishment of a commission of inquiry to
investigate the September 11 attack? Recent revelations that our expensive
intelligence agencies had more than enough evidence to know what the bin Laden
gang was up to leave us wondering.

Why had American intelligence
failed so miserably when foreign intelligence agencies seemed to have so much
better knowledge? And why was the American military so well prepared for our
eventual invasion of Afghanistan? There are too many unanswered questions.
Doesn't America deserve an explanation?

We have an email from John
Horne (johnehorne@hotmail.com), who
complains of evasiveness in the official White House transcript of National
Security Advisor Condaleezza Rice's address to the media in defense of her
boss? lack of action following reports that the FBI ignored specific warnings
before the WTC attack. Twenty-one paragraphs from the bottom, Horne writes, the
official transcript states:

"Q Dr. Rice, are you aware
of the reports at the time that -- was in Washington on September 11th, and on
September$100,000 was wired to
Pakistan to this group here in this area? While he was here meeting with you or
anybody in the administration??

In
his email Horne insists, 'the two dashes are normally included in transcripts
to indicate a pause, but Dr Rice clearly understands the question that is being
asked, hence her reply:

"?DR.
RICE: I have not seen that report, and he was certainly not meeting with
me."?

Do the the two dashes
represent a pause, as Horne says, or do they represent a lapse by whomever
transcribed Dr. Rice's address? Or do they represent an omission, as Horne
would like to think? According to the audio version of Dr. Rice's address, the
two dashes represent the following words:

"... ISI chief?

The
ISI is the Pakistani Intelligence Service, then headed by Lt. General Mahmud
Ahmad. In SECTION
TWO of COLUMN SEVENTY you'll find the following paragraphs:

The
CIA continues to maintain an unhealthy alliance with the ISI, the organization
that groomed bin Laden and the Taliban. Last September, the head of the ISI,
General Mahmud Ahmed, was fired by Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf for his
pro-Taliban leanings and reportedly after the U.S. government presented
Musharraf with disturbing intelligence linking the general to the terrorist
hijackers.

General
Ahmed was in Washington, DC on the morning of September 11 meeting with CIA and
State Department officials as the hijacked planes slammed into the World Trade
Center and Pentagon. Later, both the Northern Alliance spokesman in Washington,
Haron Amin, and Indian intelligence, in an apparent leak to The Times of
India, confirmed that General Ahmed ordered a Pakistani-born British citizen
and known terrorist named Ahmed Umar Sheik [now under arrest as one of the
kidnappers responsible for the murder of Wall Street Journal correspondent
Daniel Pearl]
to wire $100,000 from Pakistan to the U.S. bank account of Mohammed Atta, the
lead hijacker.

SECTION
TWO of COLUMN SEVENTY tells a story
that implies George W. Bush and his CIA did indeed know of the impending Arab
attack but were willing to sacrifice
the WTC and its occupants because Big Oil needed a provocation for America to
invade Afghanistan. Why? So Big Oil could build its Trans-Afghan pipeline.

On September 11, according to
newspaper reports, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was supposed to fly
to New York, but Israeli Intelligence told him not to go. These reports opened
the floodgates for the notoriously hyperbolic Arab propaganda machine, which
reported that Sharon told 6,000 Jews not to go to work at the WTC that day---a
report obviously as preposterous as Ibn Saud telling 6000 Moslems the same.
However, the notoriously anti-Israel Arab "Street" and anti-Semites
everywhere continue to cling to this fabrication as truthful fact. See
Thomas L. Friedman's column.

Anyway, if Israeli
Intelligence was onto something, the callous killer cowboys at the core of
America's CIA must have known something, too.

And what did Dr. Rice
know? Big Oil has rewarded her allegiance by naming a tanker after her, the SS
Condoleezza Rice.

In its original
report, The Times of India starts out:

India helped FBI trace ISI-terrorist links

by MANOJ JOSHI
12 October 2001
'THE TIMES OF INDIA'

NEW DELHI: While the Pakistani Inter Services Public Relations claimed
that former ISI director-general Lt.General Mahmud Ahmad sought retirement after
being superseded on Monday, the truth is more shocking.

Top sources confirmed here on Tuesday, that the general lost his job
because of the "evidence" India produced to show his links to one of
the suicide bombers that wrecked the World Trade Centre. The US authorities
sought his removal after confirming the fact that $100,000 were wired to WTC
hijacker Mohammed Atta from Pakistan by Ahmad Umar Sheikh [Now being held as one
of the murders of Wall Street Journal correspondent Daniel
Pearlat
the instance of General Mahmud.